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Israel invades Gaza

Smoke rises during what witnesses said were heavy Israeli shelling at the Shejaia neighbourhood in Gaza City, July 20, 2014. At least 40 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling of the Gaza neighbourhood of Shejaia, witnesses and health officials said. The mass casualties in the Shejaia district in northeast Gaza were the heaviest since Israel launched its offensive on the Palestinian territory on July 8 after cross-border rocket strikes by militants intensified.

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Israel invades Gaza

RAMLA, ISRAEL - JULY 17: Israeli home front unit soldiers work at an emergency call center on July 17, 2014 in Ramla, Israel.

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Israel invades Gaza

Despite the nearby Israeli ground offensive, farm workers pick crops in a field near the Israeli-Gaza on July 18, 2014 near Sderot, Israel.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli army flares illuminate the sky above the Gaza strip, July 18, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike on Gaza City, July 19, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

Israeli soldiers give medical care to soldiers who where wounded during an offensive in Gaza, July 20, 2014. Protests have taken place all around the world against Israel's action in Gaza as the IDF have announced that they plan to expand their ground offensive.

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Israel invades Gaza

Palestinian medics evacuate the body of a boy from Gaza's eastern Shejaiya district, July 20, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

A displaced Palestinian from the Shejaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip sits on a bench at the UN school where he and others have taken refuge after fleeing heavy fighting in their area, July 21, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli soldier inspects an Israeli home allegedly hit by a Hamas rocket in Sderot, Israel, July 21, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

Israeli soldiers stand near their tank while smoke due to airstrikes and shelling rises from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, July 22, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian man inspects the rubble of a destroyed store located on the ground floor of a building hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, July 22, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli soldier injured in combat is rushed to the emergecy room as the militery Helicopter lands in Soroka hospital in Beer-sheva, Israel, July 22, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

A relative carries a nine-year-old Palestinian girl, Shahed Qishtah, into the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia after she was injured in an Israeli strike while playing on July 22, 2014 in the norhtern Gaza Strip. Shahed died later of her injuries.

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Israel invades Gaza

Wounded Israeli soldiers are brought to a helicopter on July 23, 2014 near Kafar Aza, Israel.

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Israel invades Gaza

Israeli soldiers take cover due to a siren warning of a potential missile attack near the Israeli-Gaza border on July 23, 2014 near Kafar Aza, Israel. As operation "Protective Edge " enters its 16th day, 29 Israeli soldiers have been killed and over 600 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.

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Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian man and medics prepare to wheel a wounded child into Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli military strike near his family home , July 23, 2014. Israel is committing "a crime against humanity" during its offensive in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council today.

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Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian man holds a copy of the Koran, Islam's holy book, near a heavily damaged mosque following an Israeli military strike in Gaza city, July 23, 2014. Israel's deadly Gaza offensive entered its 16th day, with airlines blocking flights to Israel after a Gaza rocket struck near airport runways.

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Israel invades Gaza

Displaced Palestinian women and children sit in a Greek Orthodox church where many Palestinians are taking shelter in Gaza City, July 23, 2014. For the first time in years, Gaza City's Greek Orthodox church is packed to overflowing, having offered refuge to hundreds of Palestinians who fled their homes under Israeli bombardment. Around 600 people, mostly women and children, are sheltering in the church compound in the old sector of Gaza City, after escaping the inferno of neighbouring areas like Shejaiya.

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Israel invades Gaza

Fire and smoke rises from burning buildings hit by an Israeli air strike in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli rocket is fired into the northern Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014.

Israel invades Gaza

Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian firefighter walks amidst the rubble of a house which witnesses said was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, July 23, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian boy walks past the remains of a house which witnesses said was destoyed by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, July 23, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

Israeli army reservists take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets near the southern city of Ashkelon, July 23, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

Light streaks and smoke trails are seen as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel, July 23, 2014. G

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Israel invades Gaza

Jewish worshippers take part in a special prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City for the well-being of Israeli soldiers in Gaza, July 23, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian boy looks out from a window of a pick-up truck mounted with mock rockets during a sit-in against Israel's military action in Gaza, in front of the offices of the U.N. headquarters in Beirut July 24, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli soldier rests near the Israeli-Gaza border, July 18, 2014. Israeli forces escalated their operation with a ground offensive, sending troops into Gaza.

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Israel invades Gaza

Israeli soldiers patrol on a beach outside the northern Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a U.S. ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700.

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Beit Lahiya

A relative cries as he carries the body of three-year-old Palestinian girl Haniyeh Abu Jarad, who medics said was killed along with her father and other six members from the same family by an Israeli tank shell, during their funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2014.

Israel invades Gaza

Israel invades Gaza

Israeli soldiers put on their gear on the side of a road near the Gaza Strip, July 18, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli army reservist adjusts his gear in a staging area outside the Gaza Strip, July 18, 2014. Israeli gunboats lit up the sky with their fire before dawn while helicopters fired into the coastal enclave. Hamas fired mortar rounds at the invading troops and rockets across the border at the southern Israeli towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon.

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Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian reacts as he looks at the bodies of two boys and a man from Nutaiz family. The boys and the man were fleeing their house when they were killed by Israeli shelling, relatives said.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli soldier sits atop an armored personnel carrier (APC), after the end of a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014.

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Gaza Strip

Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles are seen in the northern Gaza Strip, July 21, 2014.

Israel invades Gaza

Israel invades Gaza

A Palestinian man stands amid the debris following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City, July 18, 2014. Israeli forces backed by tanks and warplanes today pushed into the edges of Gaza in a major operation to destroy Hamas tunnels. Palestinian Islamist group warned that the action was doomed to fail.

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Nahariya

Israeli soldiers weep at the grave of Israeli Sergeant Adar Barsano during his funeral in Nahariya, Israel, July 20, 2014. Sergeant Barsano was killed along with another IDF soldier on the twelfth day of operation "Protective Edge," when Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from a tunnel dug from Gaza and engaged Israeli soldiers.

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Israeli/Gaza border

A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows the trail of a missile launched by Israel's Iron Dome defence system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, as it intercepts and destroys a rocket launched from Gaza into Israel, July 21, 2014. US Secretary of State John Kerry is to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza when he arrives later today in Cairo, President Barack Obama said. "Israel has already done significant damage to Hamas's terrorist infrastructure in Gaza," Obama said in a statement at the White House, adding he had sent his top diplomat to the region to "push for an immediate cessation of hostilities."

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Shejaiya

Israel invades Gaza

Palestinian missiles are fired from Gaza City toward Israel following Israeli air strikes, July 17, 2014. Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza late Thursday on the 10th day of an offensive to stamp out rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave, the army said. At least 250 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since July 8, many of them children, medics in Gaza said, with a NGO based in the coastal enclave saying 80 percent of the deaths are civilians.

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Israel invades Gaza

Israelis overlook the Gaza border on July 18, 2014 near Sderot, Israel.

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Israel invades Gaza

Soldiers are seen advancing towards the Israeli-Gaza border during an operation near Sderot, Israel, July 19, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

An Israeli tank performs a maneuver after the end of a five-hour humanitarian truce, near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 17, 2014.

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Israel invades Gaza

The shadow of a Palestinian boy riding his bike is seen on a street in Gaza City, July 17, 2014.